Assignment XI

Chapter 12

1. Retell about Julia's trip to Cannes end her new acquaintance:

to be engaged

to turn up

to speak fluent, idiomatic French

to be sympathetic

to manage smth for a tip

to blurt out

to put off

to have a great admiration for smb.

not to sleep a wink

an odd adventure

to treat smb

to be prudish

in for a penny, in for a pound

to give smb room

to accept the situation

if the worst comes to the worst.

a put-up dob

to be a faithful wife

a devoted mother

to be shattered.

to look a perfect wreck

II. Prove that Julia was sorry for what had happened:

Did she change her attitude to the incident the course of time?

to claim acquaintance with smb

to blackmail smb

to run across smb

to catch a glimpse of smb

gossip

to cling to one's arm

in a flash

to be disgraceful

indignation

reverie

to make an advance to smb

to go weak at the knees

to take liberties with smb

2. Summarize the main events of chapter 13.

to occur to smb

to erase smth from the memory

the cast

privacy

to relish one's seclusion

to doze

to be amiable

to insinuate smth

footlights

to be a figment of one's fancy

to feel a pang

to be obvious

to give smth a spice

to make a date

to shine like a new pin

to be of average height

slight awkwardness

in the flesh

to pawn smth

to adore smb

4. Pick up all facts about Tom Fennel and be speak about this character.

Assignment XII

CHAPTER 14

I. Retell what Julia thought about Tom and their affair:

- now and then

- to be exhilarated - быть оживленным, веселым

- to fit in

- to have an affair

- a lark

- to be skin and bone

- effrontary

-sex appeal

- to feel a compassion for smb

-to feel light-hearted

- to be alert

- to lay no claims on smb.

- to bind smb to smb

- to make fuss of smb

- to be dazzled by the great

- to take a fancy to smb

- to have one' s head screwed on one's shoulders the right way

- to have a good influence on smb

II. Retell about Julia's idea of a new flat for Tom:

-alacrity

-to get into debt

- arts of cajolery

- to be conventional

- to spy on smb

- to drop in

• to be tempted - быть искушенным, соблазняться чем-либо

III. Retell about-Roger:

- to be stolid

- reddish hair

- to be disappointed in smb

- to find smb a trifle dull

- to be casual

- to set one's face against smth.

- to have no inclination

• to be aloof

IV. Retell about Julia's stay in the country:

to look fagged

to feel uneasy

to shed the years

a racing punt

to be inconsiderate - невнимательный, нечуткий

to be devoid of envy

to be tolerant

a smack in the faсe

to reprove smb

a stricken hind

to be jealous of smb

to career about

civility

to be embarrassed

to pay income - tax

to be at the top of one*s form

to have a stroll

to prefer smth to smth

to betray one's irritation

to have a thing about smb

to be a tremendous lark

to rise with the lark

the last straw

to turn smb out bag and baggage

for nuts

to get smb on the raw

to сook one's goose

to humiliate srnb

to creep (crept) on tiptoe